Edgar Dearing
Born: 1893-05-03 in Ceres, California, USA
Died: 1974-08-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films. Born in 1893, Dearing started in silent comedy shorts for Hal Roach, including several with Laurel and Hardy, notably in their classic Two Tars, probably his best ever screen role. He later had supporting roles in several of their features for 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Dearing continued in his familiar persona until the early 1950s, when he appeared in many film and television westerns, usually as a sheriff. One of his guest roles was on the syndicated television series, The Range Rider, starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones. He was still active in films and television until he retired in the early 1960s; he died from lung cancer.
Filmography
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1960
- Thriller as The Police Sergeant
- Pollyanna as Mr. Gorman
- The Tall Man
1959
- The Twilight Zone as First Resurrected Man
- No Name on the Bullet as Charlie - Chess Player (uncredited)
1958
1957
- Trackdown as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Golden Age of Comedy as archive footage
1956
- State Trooper
- Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! as Investor Charlie
1954
- Public Defender
- The Long, Long Trailer as Trailer Park Manager (uncredited)
1953
- Vice Squad as Fitz (uncredited)
- It Came from Outer Space as Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
- I'm the Law
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Fitz
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Police Lt. Ryan
- Carson City as Daly - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Rancho Notorious as Sheriff #4 (uncredited)
- Glory Alley as Man at Gym (uncredited)
- Ruby Gentry
1951
- Silver Canyon as Colonel Middler
- Pecos River as Henry Mahoney
- Boston Blackie
- As You Were as Sgt. Monahan
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Ridin' the Outlaw Trail as Pop Willard
1950
- Union Station as Detective (uncredited)
- Fancy Pants as Mr. Jones
- The Good Humor Man as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Iroquois Trail
- Hunt the Man Down as Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
- Raiders of Tomahawk Creek as Randolph Dike
1949
- The Threat as Roadblock Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Sorrowful Jones as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
- Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture as Reiber
1948
- My Girl Tisa as Jailer (uncredited)
- Out of the Storm as Ed Purcell
- Man or Mouse as Hercules Jones
1947
- The Bishop's Wife as Policeman
- Christmas Eve as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Magic Town as Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Policeman (uncredited)
- Where There's Life as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1946
- The Virginian
- Nocturne as Policeman with Injured Susan (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
- Road to Utopia as Official Policeman (uncredited)
1945
- Scarlet Street as Policeman (uncredited)
- Johnny Angel as Jim, a Cop (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Al - First Studio Cop
- Her Lucky Night as Casey
- Don't Fence Me In as Chief of Police
- Swing Out, Sister as Motorcycle Cop
- Midnight Manhunt as Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
1944
- In Society as Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
- The Mark of the Whistler as Bank Guard (uncredited)
- And the Angels Sing as Man (uncredited)
- Make Your Own Bed as Sergeant
- Strange Affair as Motorcycle Officer (Uncredited)
- Seven Doors to Death as Claude Burns
1943
- Swing Shift Maisie as Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
- Princess O'Rourke as Policeman at White House (uncredited)
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard as C.P.O. Ben Cobb
- Fired Wife as Sullivan
- The Hard Way as Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
1942
- My Favorite Spy as Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
- The Affairs of Martha as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Between Us Girls as Policeman (uncredited)
- A Gentleman After Dark as Joe
- Miss Annie Rooney as Policeman
- My Favorite Blonde as Joe - Policeman
- Apache Trail as Marshal (uncredited)
1941
- Louisiana Purchase as House Detective (uncredited)
- Niagara Falls as State Trooper
- Pot o' Gold as Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)
- Hold That Ghost as Irondome (uncredited)
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Policeman (uncredited)
- Caught in the Draft as Recruiting Sergeant
- Remember the Day as Detective
- Maisie Was a Lady as Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
1940
- Wyoming as Capt. Evans
- Manhattan Heartbeat as Policeman
- Florian as Cop
- Little Orvie as Policeman
- Primrose Path as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- One Night in the Tropics as Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
- Cross-Country Romance as Ed Sweeney
- Broadway Melody of 1940 as Policeman (uncredited)
- Lucky Partners as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man as Policeman
- When the Daltons Rode as Sheriff
- No Time for Comedy as Sweeny (uncredited)
- We Who Are Young as 1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Wildcat Bus as Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)
- And One Was Beautiful as Higgins
- Sailor's Lady as Chief Master-of-Arms
- Knute Rockne All American as Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
- American Spoken Here as Mike Fink (uncredited)
- Go West as Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Police Officer
1939
- Honolulu as Jailer
- Full Confession as Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)
- It's a Wonderful World as Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
- Thunder Afloat as Petty Officer (uncredited)
- King of the Underworld as Police Detective (uncredited)
- A Child Is Born as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Made for Each Other as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
- Nick Carter, Master Detective as Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
- Rose of Washington Square as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Four Girls in White as Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
- Dust Be My Destiny as Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
- The Jones Family in Hollywood as Studio Policeman (uncredited)
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
- Blondie Meets the Boss as Officer McGuire (uncredited)
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Jim Simmons
- Twelve Crowded Hours as Second Bartender (uncredited)
1938
- Listen, Darling as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Spring Madness as Policeman
- Border G-Man as Smoky Joslin
- You Can't Take It with You as Bill - Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Bus Conductor (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss as Policeman
- Love Is a Headache as Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
- Blondie as Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
- Hard to Get as Eddie (uncredited)
- Maid's Night Out as Police Detective (uncredited)
- The First Hundred Years as Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
- The Chaser as Policeman at End
1937
- Big City as Tom Reilley
- The Awful Truth as Motor Cop (uncredited)
- It Happened in Hollywood as Joe Stevens
- You Only Live Once as State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
- Love Is News as Motorcycle Officer
- Married Before Breakfast as Police Sergeant
- Midnight Taxi as Officer Murray
- They Gave Him a Gun as Sgt. Meadowlark
- Dangerous Number as Policeman
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Border Flight as Smugglers' Pilot
- Bunker Bean as Policeman (uncredited)
- All Business as House Detective
- Swing Time as (uncredited)
- Down the Ribber
- That Girl from Paris as Ship's Purser (uncredited)
- After the Thin Man as Bill (uncredited)
- Back to Nature as Motorcycle Officer
1935
- Rendezvous as 1st Military Policeman (uncredited)
- The Rainmakers as Kelly
- The Nitwits as Police Officer Barney Riley
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Railroad Man
- Helldorado as Motorcycle Cop
- If You Could Only Cook as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- A Quiet Fourth
- Stolen Harmony as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- She Couldn't Take It as Precint 5 Policeman
1934
- Kentucky Kernels as Policeman (uncredited)
- Cleopatra as Convict
- Thirty Day Princess as Tim - Policeman at Mrs. Schmidt's (uncredited)
- Ocean Swells as Captain
1933
- The Midnight Patrol as Policeman (uncredited)
- Eskimo as Constable Balk (uncredited)
- The Nuisance as Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
1932
- Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Legs as Train Official (uncredited)
- The Lost Squadron as Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)
1931
- Consolation Marriage as Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
- The Star Witness as Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
- The Painted Desert as Buck's Partner
- Next Door Neighbors as Cop
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as Armstrong
- Estrellados as Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
- Free and Easy as Officer
- Traffic Tangle as Motor Cop
- A Man from Wyoming as Sergeant
- Live and Learn as Mr. Smith
- Two Plus Fours as Rent Collector
- Rich Uncles
1929
- Flight as Football Coach
- The Mighty as Doughboy
- The Locked Door as Cop
- Clunked on the Corner as Cop
- A Pair of Tights as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Jazz Age as Motor Cop
1928
- Lonesome as Cop (uncredited)
- Limousine Love as Motorcycle cop
- Should Tall Men Marry? as Henchman
- Came the Dawn as Big Moving Man (uncredited)
- Fair and Muddy as Motorcycle Cop
1927
- Why Girls Love Sailors as Amorous Sailor
- Should Men Walk Home?
- Call of the Cuckoo as Guest
1926
- On the Front Page as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)